DON'T LET PARKINSON'S WIN THE RACE, 2025
Acrylic on Wood
18.7” x 26.5”
Don’t Let Parkinson’s Win the Race
A work of contrasts, A CITY SYMBOLIC (represented by different buildings with a curved sky symbolizing its transformation and changes) which we face in our daily lives; on the right, BIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S (represented inductively, the molecule of Dopamine, a synapse, a neuron moving through space, perhaps symbolizing neuroplasticity, in the center an INEXPRESSIVENESS (face of a human with Parkinson’s disease, with eyes of different colors showing that each person observes the condition differently, a Brain with multicolored dots representing neurological connections, highlighted with black dots (the location of the substantia nigra) and below, TULIP GARDEN, the emblematic flower of Parkinson’s, and 23th flowers representing each of the years worked as Teacher with children and young people in a school in Bogotá with successful pedagogical innovation, which the condition made me suspend.
Used by permission of the artist.
